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Little House On The Prairie-Complete series Box?

post #1 of 41
9/23/08 at 12:12am
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Does anyone know if they will be using new uncut transfers? or any additional bonus features not on the individual season box sets?
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post #2 of 41
9/23/08 at 3:13am

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I had tried to find out when the set was first announced, and wasn't successful at the time. Honestly, I have moved on to chasing other things and hadn't thought of this in a while. Since the release is roughly 6 weeks away now, I'm getting in the mindset of "we'll probably find out when it ships", but I'll try to take another stab at finding out, as much as time allows me to.
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post #3 of 41
9/23/08 at 5:16am

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Count me as highly interested as well. There MUST be something better than what is already out for this classic show.
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post #4 of 41
9/23/08 at 10:46am
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Originally Posted by David Lambert
I had tried to find out when the set was first announced, and wasn't successful at the time. Honestly, I have moved on to chasing other things and hadn't thought of this in a while. Since the release is roughly 6 weeks away now, I'm getting in the mindset of "we'll probably find out when it ships", but I'll try to take another stab at finding out, as much as time allows me to.

Thank you Dave. Really looking forward to finding out if this is a remaster or rehash.
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post #5 of 41
9/25/08 at 1:07pm

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Question answered:
Little House on the Prairie DVD news: Episode versions for Little House on the Prairie - The Complete Television Series | TVShowsOnDVD.com


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post #6 of 41
9/25/08 at 1:42pm

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*ships rabid raccoon to the Lionsgate studios*
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post #7 of 41
9/25/08 at 2:05pm

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This is the reason why I won't purchase any of these funky sets. This set is just the latest in a long string of poorly designed packaging for complete series sets.

Just by looking at the image it's easy to see that the DVD's could very easily slip out of their pages and get bounced within the factory sealed packaging, easily scratching the DVD's. As for the binder? Goodness grief, already. I can go down to Office Max or Staples and buy a cheap binder for $2 and that's what this packaging looks like, cheap binder packaging.
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post #8 of 41
9/25/08 at 2:33pm

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Originally Posted by Radioman970
*ships rabid raccoon to the Lionsgate studios*

Why Lionsgate? They're just distributing it for ImaVision.

And for that matter, why ImaVision? They're the poor indie company that took whatever meager scraps they were provided with after scoring what they thought would be a really cool license to release this beloved show on DVD.

Nope, it's them that did the providing what should get the rabid racoon.
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post #9 of 41
9/25/08 at 5:05pm
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Thanks David! I saved a ton of money on this. I can't believe they are not including the small DVD sized 88 page paperback book that was included in the Season 9 box...
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post #10 of 41
9/25/08 at 6:48pm

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Originally Posted by Chas_Michael
I can't believe they are not including the small DVD sized 88 page paperback book that was included in the Season 9 box...

I have no idea about that now. It could be in there for all I know.
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post #11 of 41
9/25/08 at 7:04pm

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I'm guessing they're also not including the pilot which wasn't on the season 1 dvd nor the retrospective episode they decided not to include in whatever season it was (sorry the name eludes me). That I'm sure was Imavision's decision.
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post #12 of 41
9/25/08 at 7:23pm

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I thought I read somewhere that the uncut episodes are available in the U.K.?
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post #13 of 41
9/25/08 at 8:33pm
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This has to be one of the bigger mishaps on DVD. The picture quality is miserable, episodes are CUT! They should be ashamed of themselves treating a wonderful show with such disrespect. With each season I bought I got more frustrated.
I was hoping for a remaster.
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post #14 of 41
9/26/08 at 4:17am

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No sale here, I didn't buy the season sets because of the crap they produced and will not buy this crap either.
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post #15 of 41
9/26/08 at 4:59am

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Originally Posted by David Lambert
Why Lionsgate? They're just distributing it for ImaVision.

And for that matter, why ImaVision? They're the poor indie company that took whatever meager scraps they were provided with after scoring what they thought would be a really cool license to release this beloved show on DVD.

Nope, it's them that did the providing what should get the rabid racoon.
Well, I'll call UPS and have the "ship to" address changed. Lionsgate is safe. although ImaVision made a lot of claaaims on the box... Sooo... how about we steal a few of their chickens?
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post #16 of 41
9/26/08 at 6:32am

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This is disappointing, but I suspected they would be the same transfers. I agree that its a shame such a beloved show got such shabby treatment on DVD. With TV on DVD, I've somewhat grudgingly come around to being happy with a few seasons of a show if it ends up abandoned, with less than perfect picture quality, and even with sets where a few cuts have been made, but I actually ended up selling my ImaVision Little House sets because I just couldn't stand to watch them! Aside from the picture quality issues and the fact that pretty much every episode clocked in under 45 minutes, the jarring way these episodes were edited just drove me crazy! I have Seasons 1 and 2 from the UK, which are said to be uncut, although there has been absolutely no work done to the prints that I can see. They still seem somewhat better than the ImaVision prints though, more natural looking, grainy as opposed to fuzzy! I really only did a comparison between the UK Season 1 and the ImaVision set, which I had heard was actually uncut, and found one episode (Town Party, Country Party) that had a missing scene on the ImaVision set but was in the UK set, although I believe the first season ImaVision eps are time compressed and also have the missing titles issue. I think they are up to at least Season 5 in the UK, so I will most likely buy those to at least get the episodes uncut.
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post #17 of 41
9/26/08 at 10:51am
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Originally Posted by ScottDombrowski
I think they are up to at least Season 5 in the UK, so I will most likely buy those to at least get the episodes uncut.

Do you have a link for a reasonable UK estore? Thank You.
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post #18 of 41
9/26/08 at 11:00am

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I have to concurr with yous[sic] guys.... I bought all the individual sets of LHOTP used and watched the series through once- and I'm not some perfectionist with a big-screen TV or a $1000 sound system....but I just can't bring myself to watch these DVD's again, as much as I love the show. (Haven't been able to bring myself to sell them, either...YET...but I'm thinking I'd better...as they're gonna be worthless once the new set comes out))

The sound quality is horrendous- and so many dark scenes (The picture quality isn't much better than when I used to watch the show through an antenna on an old TV in the 70's)

And now....what do they offer us? The same crap, repackaged in soime cutesy piece of junk that no straight guy (especially a bachelor like myself) would dare to put anywhere in their hoime, other than a deep dark closet!

Very disappointing.

Between stuff like this, and all the stalled series and all, I'm just so disgusted, I no longer check TVSonDVD every day like I used to- and I haven't purchased a DVD in months.

Other than the final season of the Odd Couple which I have pre-ordered....I just don't see myself purchasing many more DVDs in the future, because of the way these studios are making such a mess of what could otherwise be a wonderful thing.
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post #19 of 41
9/26/08 at 11:19am

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Some of the posts in this thread (and in a few others) have got me thinking that it might have been better for me to have waited for the 'second' releases of several shows. A few that come to mind are Adam-12, Charmed, The Fugitive (maybe?), Little House On the Prairie, and The Man From U.N.C.L.E., among others.
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post #20 of 41
9/26/08 at 11:22am

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Originally Posted by Chas_Michael
Do you have a link for a reasonable UK estore? Thank You.

I bought seasons 1 and 2 through Amazon UK. They sometimes have some really good sales prices on these if you keep checking. I see that they have the first 2 seasons at 50% off right now and season 5 at 40% off.

Amazon.co.uk: little house on the prairie
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post #21 of 41
9/26/08 at 12:33pm

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I might be willing to buy seasons 6-finale for a reasonable price if someone wants to sell and they have proven honesty on the forum here. I haven't priced these around yet though. But I'd just like the whole show in complete.

I started watching season 1 recently and they go down better the second time IMO.
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post #22 of 41
9/26/08 at 7:54pm

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Give me your bank account and address and I'll send you half of an African prince's fortune and seasons six through the finale.
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post #23 of 41
9/26/08 at 8:41pm
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Originally Posted by ScottDombrowski
I bought seasons 1 and 2 through Amazon UK. They sometimes have some really good sales prices on these if you keep checking. I see that they have the first 2 seasons at 50% off right now and season 5 at 40% off.

Amazon.co.uk: little house on the prairie

thanks. Region 2. I don't have an all region player. Too bad for me.

I guess I'm stuck with what I have.
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post #24 of 41
9/26/08 at 9:11pm

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How long are the UK versions?
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post #25 of 41
9/27/08 at 4:45am

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Originally Posted by Greg_S_H
Give me your bank account and address and I'll send you half of an African prince's fortune and seasons six through the finale.
Oh come on!! I'm not stupid!!!!



The DVDs are scratched, arent' they?!!
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post #26 of 41
9/27/08 at 9:02am

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I don't know what it is- my LHOTP DVDs are about the only DVDs I own that I have complaints about (I don't just complain about the DVD quality- but the show itself- for being so historically inaccurate; for having more tragedies befall the characters- especially Mary- than could happen to any human being in a lifetime, etc.)

There are eps I can't watch- like the one where Laura's dog dies...and then she's cruel to the new one at 1st. -or the one where Carolyn's mother shows up dead on arrival in the back of the wagon when the parents were coming to visit the Ingalls....

But yet, I can't bring myself to part with this show!

But then again.... (I think I've got a love/hate thing going on with this show....)

[Radioman looks up my username on Ebay, just in case]
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post #27 of 41
9/27/08 at 10:31am

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Originally Posted by Radioman970
Oh come on!! I'm not stupid!!!!

The DVDs are scratched, arent' they?!!

I hoped you wouldn't ask. Yes, I have to admit, season 7 won't play at all and the rest have a few discs missing here and there. Still, it's a good deal, right?

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post #28 of 41
9/27/08 at 3:36pm
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Originally Posted by RichieMagoo
for being so historically inaccurate; for having more tragedies befall the characters- especially Mary- than could happen to any human being in a lifetime, etc.)

The real Mary did go blind.
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post #29 of 41
9/27/08 at 7:21pm

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Originally Posted by Chas_Michael
The real Mary did go blind.

Yeah....but going blind was about the only tragedy to befall the real Mary- who was a spinster in real-life. Not that I care whether or not the show stayed true to the books...but I think they did go a little overboard with the drama and tragedies- and needlessly so, because in my opinion, the best shows were the light, humorous ones involving Mrs. Oleson. (Another fictional character).

I'm not usually a stickler about such things...but, like, in the ep where they all get telephones- ...it's just preposterous that a bunch of poor, isolated Minnesota farmers would have telephones in the 1880's. Stuff like that just kinda ruins the realityu of the show.

But yet, I love the values expressed in the show...and the lifestyle portrayed...and the beautiful scenery.....
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post #30 of 41
9/27/08 at 8:37pm

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How about the one where Colonel Sanders showed up? It was a little preposterous when Adam went sighted.
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